A park famed for rare gorillas gears up to fight Ebola and protect its primates

In Virunga National Park, rangers are on the front lines — playing a critical role to contain the surging virus while coping ...

As Ebola Spreads, Scientists Race to Find Vaccines and Treatments

The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a ...

Two scientists on their race to make a new Ebola vaccine

The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola causing the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo currently has no vaccine. The ...

What will it take to get a vaccine for the Ebola strain driving the current outbreak?

There is an effective vaccine for Ebola — but not for the variety spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Los Angeles Times

Young men storm a Congo hospital treating Ebola patients, demanding bodies of their kin

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Young men stormed an Ebola treatment ward in eastern Congo, forcing frantic evacuations and demanding relatives’ ...
abc7NY

Attacks on Ebola treatment centers are one of several problems affecting Congo's outbreak response

Arson attacks on Ebola treatment centers in eastern Congo show how authorities are faced with a number of serious complications - including a backlash in local communities - as they try to stop an ...
CBS News

North Texas experts reflect on Ebola lessons as WHO declares new emergency

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa a public health emergency and says the virus is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. North Texas has a ...
UPI

CDC expands Ebola screening program for people returning to the U.S.

May 23 (UPI) --The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday added two more airports that travelers to the United States can be routed through for Ebola screening when entering the ...
Newsweek

Ebola Patients Flee After Second Treatment Tent Set on Fire—’Panic’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A hospital director in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...
PBS

Eighteen suspected Ebola patients escape after treatment tent is set on fire for a second time in Congo

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center where people are being treated for the ...
SFGate

A second Ebola treatment center is set ablaze in eastern Congo, with 18 suspected cases fleeing

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center where people are being treated for the ...
WRAL

Samaritan’s Purse to airlift an Ebola Treatment Center to Congo

Samaritan’s Purse will is be helping with Ebola relief. The Boone-based international Christian relief organization will airlift an Ebola Treatment Center and personal protective equipment to the ...